Working list of all land plant species is completed

Missouri Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have announced the completion of The Plant List. This international resource is a working list of all land plant species, fundamental to understanding and documenting plant diversity and effective conservation of plants.
Version 1 aims to be comprehensive for species of vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts). The list provides the  accepted Latin name for most species, with links to all synonyms by which that species has been known. It also includes unresolved names for which the contributing data sources did not contain sufficient evidence to decide whether they were accepted or synonyms.
The list includes over 1 million scientific plant names of species rank. Of these 298,900 are accepted species names. The list contains 620 plant families and 16,167 plant genera.
The completion of the list accomplishes Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, which called for a widely accessible working list of known plant species as a step towards a complete world flora.